Harvestry is here.
We built Harvestry because rewatching a lecture to find one slide is a terrible use of an hour. Version 1.0 is now available — it turns any lecture video into a polished, searchable study document in minutes, entirely on your Mac.
Import a video or paste a URL, press Begin Processing, and Harvestry handles the rest. Transcription runs on Apple's Neural Engine while screenshot capture works through the video track simultaneously — by the time both finish, your document is ready. No cloud. No account. No waiting on a server.
The output is a self-contained HTML file: warm editorial typography, live audio sync, per-word highlighting, dark mode, and a font-size slider — all built in and dependency-free. It opens instantly in any browser and works offline forever.
What's in v1.0
- On-device transcription.Five Whisper model sizes — Tiny through Large Turbo — running entirely on Apple Silicon. No audio ever leaves your Mac.
- Intelligent screenshot capture.Scene-change detection targets genuine content transitions, not presenter movement. A sharp face in the corner won't rescue a blurry slide — the frame is rejected and the next clear one is used instead.
- Manual curation.Full scrubber timeline, Seek to Clear (jumps to the nearest sharp frame in either direction), Add to Transcript (captures any frame on demand), inline notes, and title image selection.
- Annotations baked into the export.Highlights in four colours, margin notes connected to underlined phrases by a dotted line, and inline notes between passages — all embedded in the HTML and travelling with the document.
- URL import.Paste a YouTube, Vimeo, or any of 1,500+ platform URLs — including login-protected and university-hosted videos — and Harvestry downloads and processes it directly.
- Five languages.English, German, Italian, Spanish, and French — fully localised interface and export output, with a language picker right on the welcome screen.
- LLM consolidation.Optionally send your transcript to the Claude API to produce a refined, consolidated set of notes alongside the verbatim record. Both versions export together.
- Local Ollama consolidation (Pro).Run the same consolidation entirely on-device using any locally installed Ollama model. No data leaves your Mac, no per-token cost, no internet required.
- Obsidian & Markdown export (Pro).Export as a Markdown file with YAML frontmatter, linked screenshot assets, and a per-lecture folder structure — ready to drop straight into your vault or any Markdown editor.
- iCloud library sync.Your full collection of transcripts, screenshots, and study documents syncs automatically across up to two Macs via iCloud Drive.
- Privacy by design.No account, no telemetry, no analytics. Harvestry processes your content locally and keeps its business to itself.